CenturyLink of Nevada, LLC, formerly the Central Telephone Company is a telephone operating company owned by

Lumen Technologies Lumen Technologies, Inc. (formerly CenturyLink, Inc.) is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, which offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice and managed services through ...

that provides local telephone service in portions of

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. Its largest market is

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History

The company was established in 1971 as a subsidiary of Centel providing service in parts of North Carolina, Florida, and Nevada. In 1992, Centel was acquired by Sprint, which merged Centel's Florida operations into its existing Florida subsidiary, but the Central Telephone Company retained its corporate name and North Carolina and Nevada operations. In 2006, Sprint spun off its local telephone business as

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, which was then acquired by CenturyTel (now

) in 2009.

Sale of North Carolina assets

On August 3, 2021, Lumen announced its sale of its ILEC telephone assets in 20 states to

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, including North Carolina. The divested assets now operate as Brightspeed. Lumen continues to provide services in Nevada through CenturyLink of Nevada..

References

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